Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Since roads, highways and bridges are racist according to Transportation Secretary Buttman it seems that the proper thing to do would be to reroute 290 thru the northwest side where many cops, firefighters and city workers live. Racist highway eliminated!
290 is not interstate transportation, improving it wouldn’t bring in a dime, its like an economy where we all just do each others laundry, a wash. Whereas true Interstate improvements would bring investment. Actually the cancelled Illini Tollway would have boosted the economy of Illinois. East west access around the lake is the real bottleneck, the northern half of the country is still hampered going east west. Illinois had the opportunity to eliminate that bottleneck and be in the middle of the path. The path connecting highly industrialized states in the east, not all the rural states to our west… Read more »
Highways wont bring investment to Illinois. The tax structure, unemployment taxes, workers compensation insurance, favored unionized labor pool etc etc etc
Bigger expressways will allow for more murders and shootings. Let’s do it!
Can I be against the infrastructure bill be but for rebuilding 290? That highway is pretty old and it’s always congested.
What about making the lanes narrower. This way you can make 3 lanes into 8 or 9. All it would take is some paint. Maybe 4 feet wide (3 feet if you need more lanes). What could possibly go wrong. Kramer on Seinfeld made them wider but that caused some problems.
What neighborhood will be sacrificed by their alderman for a construction debris dumping ground?
Rebuild as in add a lane between Oak Park and Hillside. Hard to believe an extra lane or rebuilding the Homan Street overpass will boost the economy like they think it will.